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Using the http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/Mouse Gestures extension (v.1.0.4 at time of this writing), you can easily create a duplicate tab (Down-Up-Down by default). Or, as others have suggested, you can middle-click or Control+click a link, depending on your mouse, in order to create a new tab of the linked page. --Aeo

I use the petname firefox extension to help guard against these attacks. I believe it would have foiled this attack. It puts an extra "petname" bar in the corner of your browser. On non-SSL sites it is white and says "untrusted." On SSL sites that you have no relationship with, it is yellow and says "untrusted." If you want to begin a relationship with an SSL site, you type in a petname for it. Now it marks your petname with the fingerprint of the SSL cert and shows a green bar with the petname you typed in. When you return to the site, if the SSL cert fingerprint matches what you previously named, it again displays green with the petname. If the cert does not match, it displays yellow with "untrusted."

It's more complicated to explain than it actually is to use. The website has a much clearer explanation with pictures and a whitepaper explaining more of the theory of petnames.

skins for gmail
http://gmailskins.mozdev.org/

I almost gave up on Firefox, to return to Mozilla. I liked the "Modern theme", hate the XPish theme Firefox had. Til I stumbled upon a clone. That gave it a week or so worth of reprieve.

Then, I found Download Statusbar. Why the thing isn't the default download manager for 2.0, I don't really know. Honestly, it kicks ass.

And Adblock was nice. Session Saver was better. I learned little tricks like getting rid of a bookmark's name on the bookmark toolbar, just using the favicon. I can fit 40 or so in without even ever touching the bookmarks menu. Even better was the Favicon Picker extension... the few sites that didn't have a favicon could be given one. (Even more offtopic: Anyone have a good 16x16 dilbert icon?)

So, I myself wouldn't try this just for the sake of trying. It's hard to imagine anything better in the ways that I define "better". But as a guy working on a website, I did decide to try and see if Opera could do some things I thought would make my site Firefox-only. It's passed with flying colors. Guess IE just sucks.

I only have adblock and bugmenot, so it's not extensions causing the problem.

No, it is extensions causing the problem. Specifically adblock. Adblock appears to be a horribly written piece of shit -- it leaks memory all over the damn place. Use Adblock Plus instead -- I think it still leaks memory a bit, but I can surf for several days without reloading Firefox and be at <200M usage, while I'd hit 400M with Adblock in a day.

And I've actually added a couple extensions since switching to Adblock Plus, so if anything my memory should be up, not down. Adblock Plus still works with FilterSet.G, and it also adds whitelists. There are a few esoteric features it doesn't have compared to Adblock, but I certainly haven't missed them.

Extensions are the really powerful bit of Firefox, and something matched by no other browser in ease of development and capability. Unfortunately they seem to also be prone to memory leaks. Firefox, in and of itself, doesn't leak memory (much), but a lot of extensions and plugins (Flash) do. If you want to test this, go for it -- start Firefox in Safe Mode and watch its memory usage over time. Note that plugins (fucking Flash) are still enabled, so if that's what's leaking memory (yes) then you'll still see memory usage increase over time. Surf to sites that don't require plugins and you shouldn't see much of a memory leak though. Remove the Flash plugin (or maybe use NoScript or Flashblock -- although I've had many issues with the latter, including conflicts with GreaseMonkey scripts) and you'll eliminate what's the second biggest memory leak.

But, really, ditch Adblock and replace it with Adblock Plus. You'll solve most of your problems right there. It's the biggest memory leak I've seen in a long, long time.

Lovely - the link they provide doesn't even work. I would've expected something better from Google (like, maybe, a link to the Adblock Plus homepage)...

Use Firefox PrefBar to avoid Macromedia Flash, it works, at least on MS Windows. Check the box when you see M Flash is essential to navigation.

Yes, they are, they [flash ads] consume my bandwidth and CPU! And there's no way to switch them off!

Yes there is: FlashBlock.

Works great.

Luckily, like many previous Mozilla versions, it also comes with the "Modern" theme, which is easily selected.
This of course goes well with the Modern icon pack. Firefox has "always" had big memory leaks, as far as I've noticed, and Firefox has always had the "bug" where the page rendering is coupled to the entire UI. Firefox is unusable when it takes a half-second or more to switch between a 'relatively' large (cough, 20) number of tabs, and can take thirty seconds or more to load a plugin like Shockwave or Java, even on a fast machine. Then there are all of the security issues with Firefox, like that they're more or less supporting spyware tracking, nevermind the issue where it ignores most Java security; it's the only browser I've seen anymore which actually gets affected by Java Viruses, even Internet Explorer (6 SP2 or better) won't. They also tend to have a policy of inserting code which may not be stable, and may not be in the best interest of...anyone.

Also, it's not incompatible with particularly useful extensions. Even ForecastFox and Reminderfox work, as do EnigMail nightlies, Adblock (and Adblock Plus with automatic filter update extensions), Googlebar, StumbleUpon, even the web developer toolbar, and various tab browsing functionality can be replicated with Nightly builds of Multizilla. The only thing I can't easily replicate on SeaMonkey is GreaseMonkey (ironically). Ancient versions depend on Mozilla 1.7 or so, newer versions want Firefox 1.5, though I'm told there'll be a Seamonkey-compatible sometime soon.

And while Firefox may have originally been meant to "trim the fat" of Mozilla, the per-tab usage of SM vs. Firefox isn't a substantial difference (about 30MB difference on 100 tabs, which at that point is a drop in the bucket), and Mozilla/SeaMonkey also include the email client (which only adds about 4MB, compared to 40+ for Thunderbird, and 60+ or so for Outlook 2003), and can rack up more savings the more you use it to replace other things, like IRC client and Calendar (which now has a working version for Seamonkey). It also tends to render pages faster, with less CPU time, and less CPU time used for 'idle pages'. I can't count the number of times I've had to kill Firefox and restart it because some random tab or another started using 100% CPU time, even when it wasn't the active one. Animated GIFs also made the browser crazy (though I was getting that as late as December or so, before Firefox was finally purged permanently from my machine). Between SeaMonkey and Miranda, I save about 150MB of memory and a lot more CPU power compared to using other (standard) possible combinations of applications.

Luckily, like many previous Mozilla versions, it also comes with the "Modern" theme, which is easily selected.
This of course goes well with the Modern icon pack. Firefox has "always" had big memory leaks, as far as I've noticed, and Firefox has always had the "bug" where the page rendering is coupled to the entire UI. Firefox is unusable when it takes a half-second or more to switch between a 'relatively' large (cough, 20) number of tabs, and can take thirty seconds or more to load a plugin like Shockwave or Java, even on a fast machine. Then there are all of the security issues with Firefox, like that they're more or less supporting spyware tracking, nevermind the issue where it ignores most Java security; it's the only browser I've seen anymore which actually gets affected by Java Viruses, even Internet Explorer (6 SP2 or better) won't. They also tend to have a policy of inserting code which may not be stable, and may not be in the best interest of...anyone.

Also, it's not incompatible with particularly useful extensions. Even ForecastFox and Reminderfox work, as do EnigMail nightlies, Adblock (and Adblock Plus with automatic filter update extensions), Googlebar, StumbleUpon, even the web developer toolbar, and various tab browsing functionality can be replicated with Nightly builds of Multizilla. The only thing I can't easily replicate on SeaMonkey is GreaseMonkey (ironically). Ancient versions depend on Mozilla 1.7 or so, newer versions want Firefox 1.5, though I'm told there'll be a Seamonkey-compatible sometime soon.

And while Firefox may have originally been meant to "trim the fat" of Mozilla, the per-tab usage of SM vs. Firefox isn't a substantial difference (about 30MB difference on 100 tabs, which at that point is a drop in the bucket), and Mozilla/SeaMonkey also include the email client (which only adds about 4MB, compared to 40+ for Thunderbird, and 60+ or so for Outlook 2003), and can rack up more savings the more you use it to replace other things, like IRC client and Calendar (which now has a working version for Seamonkey). It also tends to render pages faster, with less CPU time, and less CPU time used for 'idle pages'. I can't count the number of times I've had to kill Firefox and restart it because some random tab or another started using 100% CPU time, even when it wasn't the active one. Animated GIFs also made the browser crazy (though I was getting that as late as December or so, before Firefox was finally purged permanently from my machine). Between SeaMonkey and Miranda, I save about 150MB of memory and a lot more CPU power compared to using other (standard) possible combinations of applications.

Luckily, like many previous Mozilla versions, it also comes with the "Modern" theme, which is easily selected.
This of course goes well with the Modern icon pack. Firefox has "always" had big memory leaks, as far as I've noticed, and Firefox has always had the "bug" where the page rendering is coupled to the entire UI. Firefox is unusable when it takes a half-second or more to switch between a 'relatively' large (cough, 20) number of tabs, and can take thirty seconds or more to load a plugin like Shockwave or Java, even on a fast machine. Then there are all of the security issues with Firefox, like that they're more or less supporting spyware tracking, nevermind the issue where it ignores most Java security; it's the only browser I've seen anymore which actually gets affected by Java Viruses, even Internet Explorer (6 SP2 or better) won't. They also tend to have a policy of inserting code which may not be stable, and may not be in the best interest of...anyone.

Also, it's not incompatible with particularly useful extensions. Even ForecastFox and Reminderfox work, as do EnigMail nightlies, Adblock (and Adblock Plus with automatic filter update extensions), Googlebar, StumbleUpon, even the web developer toolbar, and various tab browsing functionality can be replicated with Nightly builds of Multizilla. The only thing I can't easily replicate on SeaMonkey is GreaseMonkey (ironically). Ancient versions depend on Mozilla 1.7 or so, newer versions want Firefox 1.5, though I'm told there'll be a Seamonkey-compatible sometime soon.

And while Firefox may have originally been meant to "trim the fat" of Mozilla, the per-tab usage of SM vs. Firefox isn't a substantial difference (about 30MB difference on 100 tabs, which at that point is a drop in the bucket), and Mozilla/SeaMonkey also include the email client (which only adds about 4MB, compared to 40+ for Thunderbird, and 60+ or so for Outlook 2003), and can rack up more savings the more you use it to replace other things, like IRC client and Calendar (which now has a working version for Seamonkey). It also tends to render pages faster, with less CPU time, and less CPU time used for 'idle pages'. I can't count the number of times I've had to kill Firefox and restart it because some random tab or another started using 100% CPU time, even when it wasn't the active one. Animated GIFs also made the browser crazy (though I was getting that as late as December or so, before Firefox was finally purged permanently from my machine). Between SeaMonkey and Miranda, I save about 150MB of memory and a lot more CPU power compared to using other (standard) possible combinations of applications.

Luckily, like many previous Mozilla versions, it also comes with the "Modern" theme, which is easily selected.
This of course goes well with the Modern icon pack. Firefox has "always" had big memory leaks, as far as I've noticed, and Firefox has always had the "bug" where the page rendering is coupled to the entire UI. Firefox is unusable when it takes a half-second or more to switch between a 'relatively' large (cough, 20) number of tabs, and can take thirty seconds or more to load a plugin like Shockwave or Java, even on a fast machine. Then there are all of the security issues with Firefox, like that they're more or less supporting spyware tracking, nevermind the issue where it ignores most Java security; it's the only browser I've seen anymore which actually gets affected by Java Viruses, even Internet Explorer (6 SP2 or better) won't. They also tend to have a policy of inserting code which may not be stable, and may not be in the best interest of...anyone.

Also, it's not incompatible with particularly useful extensions. Even ForecastFox and Reminderfox work, as do EnigMail nightlies, Adblock (and Adblock Plus with automatic filter update extensions), Googlebar, StumbleUpon, even the web developer toolbar, and various tab browsing functionality can be replicated with Nightly builds of Multizilla. The only thing I can't easily replicate on SeaMonkey is GreaseMonkey (ironically). Ancient versions depend on Mozilla 1.7 or so, newer versions want Firefox 1.5, though I'm told there'll be a Seamonkey-compatible sometime soon.

And while Firefox may have originally been meant to "trim the fat" of Mozilla, the per-tab usage of SM vs. Firefox isn't a substantial difference (about 30MB difference on 100 tabs, which at that point is a drop in the bucket), and Mozilla/SeaMonkey also include the email client (which only adds about 4MB, compared to 40+ for Thunderbird, and 60+ or so for Outlook 2003), and can rack up more savings the more you use it to replace other things, like IRC client and Calendar (which now has a working version for Seamonkey). It also tends to render pages faster, with less CPU time, and less CPU time used for 'idle pages'. I can't count the number of times I've had to kill Firefox and restart it because some random tab or another started using 100% CPU time, even when it wasn't the active one. Animated GIFs also made the browser crazy (though I was getting that as late as December or so, before Firefox was finally purged permanently from my machine). Between SeaMonkey and Miranda, I save about 150MB of memory and a lot more CPU power compared to using other (standard) possible combinations of applications.

Luckily, like many previous Mozilla versions, it also comes with the "Modern" theme, which is easily selected.
This of course goes well with the Modern icon pack. Firefox has "always" had big memory leaks, as far as I've noticed, and Firefox has always had the "bug" where the page rendering is coupled to the entire UI. Firefox is unusable when it takes a half-second or more to switch between a 'relatively' large (cough, 20) number of tabs, and can take thirty seconds or more to load a plugin like Shockwave or Java, even on a fast machine. Then there are all of the security issues with Firefox, like that they're more or less supporting spyware tracking, nevermind the issue where it ignores most Java security; it's the only browser I've seen anymore which actually gets affected by Java Viruses, even Internet Explorer (6 SP2 or better) won't. They also tend to have a policy of inserting code which may not be stable, and may not be in the best interest of...anyone.

Also, it's not incompatible with particularly useful extensions. Even ForecastFox and Reminderfox work, as do EnigMail nightlies, Adblock (and Adblock Plus with automatic filter update extensions), Googlebar, StumbleUpon, even the web developer toolbar, and various tab browsing functionality can be replicated with Nightly builds of Multizilla. The only thing I can't easily replicate on SeaMonkey is GreaseMonkey (ironically). Ancient versions depend on Mozilla 1.7 or so, newer versions want Firefox 1.5, though I'm told there'll be a Seamonkey-compatible sometime soon.

And while Firefox may have originally been meant to "trim the fat" of Mozilla, the per-tab usage of SM vs. Firefox isn't a substantial difference (about 30MB difference on 100 tabs, which at that point is a drop in the bucket), and Mozilla/SeaMonkey also include the email client (which only adds about 4MB, compared to 40+ for Thunderbird, and 60+ or so for Outlook 2003), and can rack up more savings the more you use it to replace other things, like IRC client and Calendar (which now has a working version for Seamonkey). It also tends to render pages faster, with less CPU time, and less CPU time used for 'idle pages'. I can't count the number of times I've had to kill Firefox and restart it because some random tab or another started using 100% CPU time, even when it wasn't the active one. Animated GIFs also made the browser crazy (though I was getting that as late as December or so, before Firefox was finally purged permanently from my machine). Between SeaMonkey and Miranda, I save about 150MB of memory and a lot more CPU power compared to using other (standard) possible combinations of applications.

Sorry for bugging you if you feel it's off-topic. After many years of using Opera almost exclusively (I recently started using FF for some neat extensions, but only on occassion) I decided to switch to FF yesterday, since most of issues that ticked me in FF were solved by either 1.5 or some extensions. Plus, somehow ./ was rendering awfully slow on my Opera (version 8.51 under Ubuntu) -- must be some nasty bug - scrolling is very slow and it seems to engage CPU as it was some _really_ demanding task (and no, I don't have legacy hardware). Things that I didn't like about FF that got fixed.

-- session restoring on a startup - Session Saver extension (link in parent's post)
-- tab duplication (I use this A LOT) - Duplicate Tab extension
-- not opening new window like 5 times per hour of normal work, which annoyed me the most - almost fixed in 1.5 (some things, like "get more extensions" still spawns a new window)
-- back button loads pages from cache (huge speed increase) - new in 1.5, I'm not sure if it needs Fasterfox extension (which is really cool, btw, just make sure you don't want to be a nasty boy who has pre-fetching turned on :) ).
-- tab reordering - new in 1.5

These are all things that are in Opera by default and I really didn't like FF 1.0.7 and earlier behavior in these areas. But - apart from zillions of cool extensions - it has some nice things by default:
-- right click on some website's search input field and select "add a keyword for this search". example: assing a "wp" to Polish wikipedia. Now you may simply type "wpl Kiebasa" in the address bar to make this search. It's doable in Opera, but requires manual editing of some ini file(s) (haven't done it, was too lazy).
-- writing a string in address bar and hitting enter works like "I'm feeling lucky" on google.com - it gets you to google's first result for that string. Saves precious time when you can't remember exact address of some website, but you're sure it will be first in SERPS for some string. Example: typing "ubuntu forums" in address bar will get you straight to ubuntuforums.org.

Sorry for bugging you if you feel it's off-topic. After many years of using Opera almost exclusively (I recently started using FF for some neat extensions, but only on occassion) I decided to switch to FF yesterday, since most of issues that ticked me in FF were solved by either 1.5 or some extensions. Plus, somehow ./ was rendering awfully slow on my Opera (version 8.51 under Ubuntu) -- must be some nasty bug - scrolling is very slow and it seems to engage CPU as it was some _really_ demanding task (and no, I don't have legacy hardware). Things that I didn't like about FF that got fixed.

-- session restoring on a startup - Session Saver extension (link in parent's post)
-- tab duplication (I use this A LOT) - Duplicate Tab extension
-- not opening new window like 5 times per hour of normal work, which annoyed me the most - almost fixed in 1.5 (some things, like "get more extensions" still spawns a new window)
-- back button loads pages from cache (huge speed increase) - new in 1.5, I'm not sure if it needs Fasterfox extension (which is really cool, btw, just make sure you don't want to be a nasty boy who has pre-fetching turned on :) ).
-- tab reordering - new in 1.5

These are all things that are in Opera by default and I really didn't like FF 1.0.7 and earlier behavior in these areas. But - apart from zillions of cool extensions - it has some nice things by default:
-- right click on some website's search input field and select "add a keyword for this search". example: assing a "wp" to Polish wikipedia. Now you may simply type "wpl Kiebasa" in the address bar to make this search. It's doable in Opera, but requires manual editing of some ini file(s) (haven't done it, was too lazy).
-- writing a string in address bar and hitting enter works like "I'm feeling lucky" on google.com - it gets you to google's first result for that string. Saves precious time when you can't remember exact address of some website, but you're sure it will be first in SERPS for some string. Example: typing "ubuntu forums" in address bar will get you straight to ubuntuforums.org.

• Fixed: "Not loaded" in the status bar on startup and context menu resetting to default (dropping compatibily with Mozilla Suite before 1.7 and Firefox before 0.9 for that reason)
• Added an icon to the toolbar (Firefox only, can be moved/removed via standard "Customize" dialog)
• Added an option to hide "Adblock" in the status bar
• Added an option to block ads in local pages (for compatibility with Sage)
• Made whitelist filters apply to both whole pages and individual items
• Made "Disable on site" add more specific filters
• Preferences dialog: Parts of the "Options" menu moved into the new "Filters" menu and the context menu
• Preferences dialog: Made "Options" menu apply changes immediately and not when "OK" was pressed
• Preferences dialog: Made menu items to disable whenever necessary
• Added "Adblock Link" to the context menu (if "Check banner links" is enabled)
• Many minor changes

• Click here to install it. The install takes about 10 seconds.
• Then, take a look at the visual tutorial of the Auto-Add feature.

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Since I use IETab, the phrase "only works with IE" no longer holds much meaning for me.

(Well, actually, if there's an IE only page, I guess I have to click one button to make it work. But that's all.)

When I use IETab, I wonder if it reports my browser as IE or FF for these statistics?

Are you a Firefox user? I've got access to 5000+ search engines. If a site with a search engine isn't listed at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/, then it's probably your own.

However, I am disappointed that there seems to still be no support for "live bookmarks" (RSS feeds in bookmark form). That is the killer feature that made me switch from the Mozilla suite to Firefox. Are there any plans to implement this handy functionality in Seamonkey?

The bug for this is bug 240393 (copy paste link, as /. referers are blocked) and doesn't have any activity. If a developer who cares about this steps up to the plate, it could be in soon, but otherwise I wouldn't expect it for a while.

However, turning the mailnews client into a feedreader, similar to Thunderbird (both using Myk Melez's ForumZilla extension as a starting point) is being worked on in bug 255834 (idem), and is targetted for SeaMonkey 1.1, to be released late this year. It would've been in SeaMonkey 1.0, but unfortunately the lead Thunderbird dev didn't want this code to be shared, so extra effort had to be spent to fork it between the SeaMonkey and Thunderbird trees.

I wholeheartedly agree that the Modern theme looks better than Classic, and I think it should be the default. Actually, I think Modern - Mozillium looks quite nice, as does Graymodern.

Hopefully theme developers will give us nice new themes for SeaMonkey, like they do for Opera and Firefox.

Give it a try and see why many folks say "Long live the suite!".It also plays VERY nice with Firefox,Kmeleon,And Opera,Which is nice if you have family that uses your machine.Each can have their own browser and not muck about with yours!

Changing cookies is even easier than that in the Mozilla family of browsers, with the Add'n'edit Cookies extension. You're right that, in general, cookies should be treated like POST or GET data, which can be full of crap you, as web designer, don't want. Just like POST and GET data, it should be thoroughly cleaned if it's to be used within an SQL query or to look up a file in the filesystem. The extension, though, is a great way to debug problems related to cookies.

If you regularly need to download videos from Google Video:

- Install the GreaseMonkey Extension for Firefox.
- Install the Google Video - Download Video user script.
- Click the download link to download videos from Google Video.

The videos can be played under Linux with mplayer. Enjoy.

  I already have a flash killer. It's called Flashblock. Of course it only works in Firefox.

Hey, now -- no need to be a Firefox bigot! It works in Mozilla too.

Try the CookieCuller extension: http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/

You can have it delete all cookies you don't want upon exiting the browser. Load it up, find the cookies you do want to keep (Slashdot login, for example), protect them, and then switch on the extension's "delete cookies on exit". It will delete all non-protected cookies. So you can keep cookies on for those sites that require them, even save cookies you want to save, but permenant or long-term tracking cookies can't do much.

if you use moz/firefox. its really nice not being forced to see flash everywhere. you get to choose.

flashblock

I already have a flash killer. It's called Flashblock. Of course it only works in Firefox. If the truth must be told, advertising killed flash for me. Flashblock simple buries it. Though it's more like burying something alive. It's still there. You just don't have to look at it anymore.

If you do a SEARCH on google news, the logo still says Beta. The front page does not. Maybe the search function is still in Beta?
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I've found the ietab extension for Firefox to work fairly well. Windows Update has a tendency to take focus on occasion, but it's technically possible to do both. I'm curious to see if/how they fix the focus problem in IE7.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Hide Roland Piquepaille
// @namespace http://slashdot.org/~Baricom
// @description Hides Slashdot articles from the infamous submitter.
// @include http://.slashdot.org/
// @include http://slashdot.org/
// ==/UserScript==
 
// Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0
// http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 
var submitters = document.evaluate('//div[@class="intro"]/a', document.getElementById('articles'), null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
 
for (var i = 0; i < submitters.snapshotLength; i++) {
  submitter = submitters.snapshotItem(i).firstChild.nodeValue;
   
  if (submitter == "Roland Piquepaille") {
    articles = document.evaluate('ancestor::div[@class="article"] ', submitters.snapshotItem(i), null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
    article = articles.snapshotItem(0)
 
    article.style.display = 'none';
// Remove the story links also
    article.nextSibling.style.display = 'none';
  }
}

We are going to be givern one extra permanent slot. That was in the newest Computer Gaming issue I received today ...
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DONE! http://www.cafepress.com/backhoe
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Here's the target: http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/hs/

And here's the weapon: http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/

Consider a simple redirect URL.

Which can be easily bypassed.

I love me my JumpLink.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

I take it you've never tried FlashBlock? It's a fairly popular extension which keeps Flash objects from running (or even loading) until they're clicked on.

Now you can access the yahoo and hotmail accounts from your thunderbird email client using extensions instead of external programs. Available here Lastest versions of hotmail, yahoo extensions here

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please patent ... annoying flashing siezure-inducing animated GIF advertisements

Actually, the technology behind GIF animations was patented in the early 1980s, but patents last only 20 years. The best way to block the other annoyances is to limit application/x-shockwave-flash support to a whitelist of web sites.

The holiday season sure lived up to my expectations.

DS! Woo!
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please.
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I rent a lot of cars, 'cause I go on the road, and when I drive a rental car, I don't know what's going on with them, right. So a lot of times I'll drive for like ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency 'make the car smell funny' lever.
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...the value they get from OSS is far more than anything they contribute.

It seems to me that you've forgotten what OSS is about. It is free, and written to be useful to everyone, not as a means to make other people write code for you. Google is taking advantage of this the way it's expected to.

Think of how normal people use OSS. I myself have a full operating system with an awesome desktop environment, and I use software that's the best of the best. But have I written a full window manager with a widget system, a web browser, an instant messaging client, a first-person shooter, and countless other apps to contribute back? No, I've made a small bugfix to the Greasemonkey script I use for my signatures and a small hack to better integrate a plugin in a content management system. Once I wrote a breakout clone in Java that nobody wanted. That's about it, and it's okay, because that little bit still adds to the whole. I think Google's contributions are more than equivilant.

Finally I have a use for this extension

Here's a useful Firefox extension for this kind of stuff:

http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/

In this article, it says that the original Orion design was large enough for 150 people but would have used less than 2,000 bombs to reach escape velocity. If they used fusion bombs instead of fission bombs, there would be much less radioactive waste and much higher yield per explosion. It also mentions that the testing proccess for the entire project, despite using thousands of bombs, would increase the total atmospheric contamination by less than 1%.
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Johnny 5 IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!! Legos are certainly much cooler than when I was a kid...
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We have something that would work better than torrent files for p2p in the browser - dijjer. It requires a Java Runtime Environment but there are extensions which make it easier to use in Firefox. Dijjer downloads content in-order (unlike bittorrent) and there's nothing to configure once your web server supports the range header. I was working on a dijjer applet and extension a while ago, but I got too busy to develop it further. The slashdot effect for webpages could be mitigated using a combination of Dijjer and MAF to distribute archive copies of the page as long as its popular.

We have something that would work better than torrent files for p2p in the browser - dijjer. It requires a Java Runtime Environment but there are extensions which make it easier to use in Firefox. Dijjer downloads content in-order (unlike bittorrent) and there's nothing to configure once your web server supports the range header. I was working on a dijjer applet and extension a while ago, but I got too busy to develop it further. The slashdot effect for webpages could be mitigated using a combination of Dijjer and MAF to distribute archive copies of the page as long as its popular.